Mass
Of physical property and fundamental quantity.
The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field.
This concept's ID is @1~27563
Physics
- rest mass
(physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer,...
- relativistic mass
(physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to...
- gravitational mass
(physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for...
- inertial mass
(physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration...
- mass energy
(physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy.
Chemistry
- atomic mass
(chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass unit...
- molecular weight
(chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a...
Also contains
- mass defect
The amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses...
- body
The main mass of a thing.
- biomass
The total mass of living matter in a given unit area.
- critical mass
The minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction.
- bulk
The property possessed by a large mass.